Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files
Floyd Loveless
Floyd Loveless was executed at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City on September 29, 1944. He was convicted of killing Elko County constable A.H. Berning in Carlin, Nevada on August 20, 1942. Loveless had escaped the Indiana Boy's Home in Plainville, Indiana on August 15, 1942, where he had been placed after having committed over twenty crimes. Loveless and another escapee drove cross-country, stealing automobiles and burglarizing homes along the way, before the two separated in Nevada. Constable Berning stopped Loveless, who shot him twice and abandoned his body in the desert. Despite pleas to spare his life because of his youth, Loveless went to the gas chamber before his eighteenth birthday, and was the youngest person ever executed at the Nevada State Prison.
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